It's raining funds for Kejriwal. Aam Aadmi Party gets Rs 6-7 lakh in donations every day

Hong Kong-based Non-Resident Indian Amit Aggarwal donated Rs 50 lakh to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). Â�gAAP is trying to bring the change we seek. That is why I came forward to help them,Â�h he said.

Nidhi, a Class IX student who has been saving her pocket money for the last two years in a piggy bank, donated all her savings to AAP. She also made a small speech at an Arvind Kejriwal rally, saying that Kejriwal's fight is everyone's fight. Nidhi wants to see a corruptionfree India.

Ravi Das, a rickshaw-puller in the Capital, wanted to be part of the movement. And he did, donating all he could spare: Rs 10.

This list could go on and on. The AAP fervour has caught on to 45,000 donors already, be they soldiers from Siachen or businessmen in America. When activist-turned-politician Kejriwal forayed into the political arena last November, he knew money would be needed to fight the political battles that lay ahead. Kejriwal began organising public meetings in the national Capital to garner support, urging people to donate to the AAP.

Arvind Kejriwal"I seek your time and money in this mission as we are all working towards a common cause. Most parties are funded by big corporates for something in return but this will not happen in AAP. This party would be funded by the Aam Aadmi and Aam Aurat of this country. That would be the beginning of an honest and transparent politics, unfortunately which runs on black money today," Kejriwal would say.

It's worked. People started depositing their savings into the AAP's account, which has now swelled to a very impressive Rs 11.5 crore. Mail Today went through the list of donors, discovering that most people have donated Rs 500 or more. These are all common people who pay taxes to the government, and the amount is thus substantial.

Funds galore"People contribute from all across the country. There are auto-drivers, rickshaw-pullers, labourers and small time businessmen. While most of them contributed Rs 500 or more, there are more than 200 people who have donated more than Rs 50,000 to the party" said a party worker.

Many people have donated online. Besides, people come forward at every public meeting and give whatever they have at that moment. "There are numerous example when people contributed whatever they had in their wallet," he added.

Thanking people for their contributions, Kejriwal said, "Thousands of supporters, like Amit, are coming forward to support AAP. We have collected Rs 4 lakh from the door-to-door campaign in New Delhi constituency alone."

Kejriwal said that contributions of common people have made his resolve to change the politics of this country even stronger.

Rajya Sabha member and businessman Rajeev Chandrasekhar raised eyebrows all around when he recently donated Rs 5 lakh to the party. Following the donation, he posted a remark on the Facebook, "Made my first financial support to Aam Aadmi Party for their Delhi campaign - Rs 5 Lakhs! Their performance in the Delhi elections is important for all those who care about the 'real issues' of governance and politics of serving people! It's no longer ok to be silent and mute spectators to what is happening! Take a stand!"

Kejriwal has been scathing about the lack of transparency on the donations of other big parties like Congress and BJP.

"The Congress got donations worth Rs 2,008 crore and the BJP got Rs 995 crore. Can they publish the list of all donors? More importantly, if they cannot come clean about their own internal funding, how can they be expected to clean up corruption?" said Kejriwal.

No secretsAAP workers said that the party discloses all donations, even of Rs 1. "We have made the system completely transparent following the instructions of Kejriwal. Every detail is online. More importantly, we update the list on a real-time basis which means every online contribution gets added to the list of donors within few minutes," he added.